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in fact, you unpack the environ nt section of what people careti about, climate tes to ran virtually dead last. people are more concerned with their local environment: air pollution, water pollution, things like that. this is why we've seen these new poll-tested terms like "carbon pollution." c.o.-2 is the thing i'm exiling at you right now, we breathe out carbon dioxide. so we're seeing new terms called green energy instead of climate change because polls show people are skeptical and dubious of those motivations. they believe it's been overblown and it turns people off. >> suarez: joseph romm, why haven't we heard more about this topic during the national campaign? >> well, of course, mitt romney gets money from fossil fuel interests that'sne reon heon even opposes a clean energy tax credit for wind. obama, i think, is just misreading the polls entirely. the latest pollingt shows that - i think ken is right. when global warming becomes local that the public comes concerned about it. that's why the polls in the last two years have shown the public increasingly concerned and this is
in fact, you unpack the environ nt section of what people careti about, climate tes to ran virtually dead last. people are more concerned with their local environment: air pollution, water pollution, things like that. this is why we've seen these new poll-tested terms like "carbon pollution." c.o.-2 is the thing i'm exiling at you right now, we breathe out carbon dioxide. so we're seeing new terms called green energy instead of climate change because polls show people are skeptical...
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already gaining our investments and pulling back unemployment until we figure out what the macroeconomic environment is going to do next year. so the sooner we know that, the more we can get about hiring people. so the longer it takes, the more difficult it is to be able to turn things around in 2013. >> woodruff: so each side, mr. bertolini, is arguing they've got public opinion thr side. the republicans are saying the public is behind them in believing that to raise taxes on the well-to-do people earning over $250,000 a year is going to hurt growth and it's going to kill jobs and it's not something they want to do. >> judy, no matter how you do the arithmetic, we have to raise revenue and we have to deal with entitlement programs. you can't do this all by raising taxes and you can't do it all by cutting costs. so i think americans really want the truth. they want leadership that says here's what we need to do no matter how difficult it is. personal accountability on the part of washington to get something done and then a level of transparency about what's being done so that people can see progress
already gaining our investments and pulling back unemployment until we figure out what the macroeconomic environment is going to do next year. so the sooner we know that, the more we can get about hiring people. so the longer it takes, the more difficult it is to be able to turn things around in 2013. >> woodruff: so each side, mr. bertolini, is arguing they've got public opinion thr side. the republicans are saying the public is behind them in believing that to raise taxes on the...
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will refocus, it will become a choice between the two candidates, and the president needs a better environment, better unemployment numbers to be account of being re-elected, i think we are heading for a very competitive race. >> and we have 46 states to go as i think somebody pointed out a minute ago. >> all right. i think it was newt gingrich. stu rothenberg, kristina bell tony, thank you both. gwen over to you. >> we will recap the vote tonight in florida. romney won big with 46 percent of the vote, 32 percent for newt gingrich, rick santorum form came in a distant third followed by ron paul in single digits. some closing thoughts now from mark shields and david brooks. ron paul, fourth now in south carolina, fourth in florida, he is still campaigning and in nevada this week. what happens with him? >> i think caucus states are ron paul's hope. caucus states, the premium is upon ideological conviction and organizational excellence, and that is sort of an intense coalition of support can really reflect and almost magnify. i think ron paul in nevada and, maine looks to be fairly tough territor
will refocus, it will become a choice between the two candidates, and the president needs a better environment, better unemployment numbers to be account of being re-elected, i think we are heading for a very competitive race. >> and we have 46 states to go as i think somebody pointed out a minute ago. >> all right. i think it was newt gingrich. stu rothenberg, kristina bell tony, thank you both. gwen over to you. >> we will recap the vote tonight in florida. romney won big...
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kenneth green is resident scholar on energy and the environment at the american enterprise instute, a conservative think tank. and daniel weiss is director of climate strategy at the center for american progress, a liberal policy group. gentlemen, welcome. simply, kenneth green can the president-- this president, any president-- push down the price of gas? >> sure they can, but not as much as people might think. about 75% of the price of gas is the world price of oil. but there's a federal gas tax that can be changed, the e.p.a. requirements for specific fuel blends that can be changed. so it's not quite true to say the president has no power but it's not as big as some people might like. >> suarez: daniel weiss, can the president change the price of gas if he or she wants to? >> well, when this happened in 2008 president george w. bush said "i would wave a magic wand if i could to lower prices but there's no such thing." and this's true for this president as well. there is no magic wand to wave. prices are high due to several factors. first, there's some supply disruption in the midd
kenneth green is resident scholar on energy and the environment at the american enterprise instute, a conservative think tank. and daniel weiss is director of climate strategy at the center for american progress, a liberal policy group. gentlemen, welcome. simply, kenneth green can the president-- this president, any president-- push down the price of gas? >> sure they can, but not as much as people might think. about 75% of the price of gas is the world price of oil. but there's a...
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leaders right now especially in this kind of political environment. is that a bar that has to be met? >> it's probably impossible to reduce the misunderstandings and the distrust. they have a number of military programs that are just facts on the ground. testing missiles that can sink american aircraft carriers. that's the only purpose of those missiles. testing missiles that can shoot down satellites and possibly developing so many of these anti-satellite missiles that they could overwhelm all the reconnaisance satellites we have. we don't have that many satellites in space. the cyber attacks. the false defense budget, claiming they only have a defense budget of this month when they think they have more than twice as much. these are not matters that plight... polite conversation or saying, gee, i agree with you, help to resolve. they're facts on the ground. dalai lama being excluded from dialogue. >> ifill: there's no mided ground on that one. >> ultimately if you really want to build trust china needs to change. china needs to conform to a more demo
leaders right now especially in this kind of political environment. is that a bar that has to be met? >> it's probably impossible to reduce the misunderstandings and the distrust. they have a number of military programs that are just facts on the ground. testing missiles that can sink american aircraft carriers. that's the only purpose of those missiles. testing missiles that can shoot down satellites and possibly developing so many of these anti-satellite missiles that they could...
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but if a student is not striving in that environment should we not be notified since it's our tax dollars that are paying the bill? >> reporter: funding is another controversial issue. every student who attends cyber school represents a financial loss to school districts. >> we don't have the ability to reduce costs for those students. so you lose a kindergartner, you lose a first grader, a fifth grader, you lose a 9th grader- you can't close down a fifth classroom because two students left. >> reporter: so how do you make that up? >> we have cut programs, we have reduced staff, and we have made larger classrooms. >> reporter: but at p.a. cyber, it's a different story. the way the funding works, cyber schools bill school districts for each student they take. but they're allowed to charge different amounts based on what the districts themselves spend. >> he's sending 11. i'm sending eight. rich school districts are sending 14,000 or 16,000! >> reporter: but p.a. cyber spends less running its school. >> the p.a. cyber school profited in the past two years, $20 million. a profit of $20 milli
but if a student is not striving in that environment should we not be notified since it's our tax dollars that are paying the bill? >> reporter: funding is another controversial issue. every student who attends cyber school represents a financial loss to school districts. >> we don't have the ability to reduce costs for those students. so you lose a kindergartner, you lose a first grader, a fifth grader, you lose a 9th grader- you can't close down a fifth classroom because two...
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you need had this in a really controlled environment so not you can you can be then when it happens but detect expanlize the heck out of it. you can't do it from the atmosphere although knee i don't theoretically it's a possibility. >> can you do the next step that wasn't possible before you had this result. does this open some doors? >> well do you know what, this is the absolutely crucial point which cannot be answered yet and it all revolves on what happens next. now, the issue is, if you find the higs particle is exactly as predicted by peter higs in 1964 it's very simple. he predicted the most sort of elegant and the most uncomplex kind of higs particle you could possibly predict. if you find that that's being basically understood and the idea has been around since 46 and people have gone as far as they can based on that understanding. what everybody in physics and particle physics at least is hoping for is that when they measure the heck out of this particle, it looks different to that sym version. there's some quirk about it are and something they need which gives them a lead or
you need had this in a really controlled environment so not you can you can be then when it happens but detect expanlize the heck out of it. you can't do it from the atmosphere although knee i don't theoretically it's a possibility. >> can you do the next step that wasn't possible before you had this result. does this open some doors? >> well do you know what, this is the absolutely crucial point which cannot be answered yet and it all revolves on what happens next. now, the issue...
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climate change, particularly from water temperature, but also from changes in flow, and in the marine environment. >> sreenivasan: estuaries, like this one, act as nurseries for juvenile salmon-- a place where they are protected from predators and feed on eelgrass before heading out into the ocean. hamlet says these habitats may disappear as well. >> we're expecting to see substantial sea level rise, perhaps a meter of sea level rise that will inundate this area. >> sreenivasan: after watching other tribal communities lose their homelands and traditional food sources, cladoosby fears that his tribe will be next. >> i'm not a scientist. i don't know why climate change is happening, if it's just a cycle in the earth, it's a generational thing, or if there's too much pollution entering the atmosphere. so when we're seeing climate change impacts in our areas we think we better get ahead of the curve. >> sreenivasan: to get ahead of the curve, they became the first tribe in the country to conduct a comprehensive climate adaptation assessment their aim: to meld their direct observations of the natural
climate change, particularly from water temperature, but also from changes in flow, and in the marine environment. >> sreenivasan: estuaries, like this one, act as nurseries for juvenile salmon-- a place where they are protected from predators and feed on eelgrass before heading out into the ocean. hamlet says these habitats may disappear as well. >> we're expecting to see substantial sea level rise, perhaps a meter of sea level rise that will inundate this area. >>...
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this doomsday story which could be solved by striking a delicate balance between economics and the environment. vic santucci is the asian carp specialist for the illinois department of natural resources. >> let them get the net out. we won't try to scare the fish away. >> reporter: he and his team are evaluating whether the carp can be controlled the old fashioned way, by catching them. >> they're trying to drive fish into one of their commercial nets and that's contracted fishermen. >> reporter: the catch-22 is that while the ultimate goal is to fish down the populations to prevent ecological damage there have to be enough asian carp left to make the business lucrative for commercial fishermen. >> it's really driven by free market principles-- how much they can get for fish, how much it costs to catch those fish and that type of thing and then you need a market, you know, what can you do with the fish. >> reporter: santucci says it's a numbers game. removing asian carp from this population downstream prevents strays from making their way up toward the electric barrier in the chicago sanitary
this doomsday story which could be solved by striking a delicate balance between economics and the environment. vic santucci is the asian carp specialist for the illinois department of natural resources. >> let them get the net out. we won't try to scare the fish away. >> reporter: he and his team are evaluating whether the carp can be controlled the old fashioned way, by catching them. >> they're trying to drive fish into one of their commercial nets and that's contracted...
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they do break down quickly in the environment. they usually try to do the spraying at nighttime pretty late, at least here in houston they do so it reduces the amount of exposure that would be to pets or people. with the spraying it's important to disperse it, it's important to get out at a time when the mosquito is most active. that east the most responsible for the transmission of west nile virus and it's most active between dusk and dawnened and so that ice when you want to do what you can to reduce those numbers. >> brown: finally coming back to the outbreak itself is there any way to predict how this will go or the rest of the season, whether we're at the peak now or whether there's more to come and it will spread to other places? >> if you have my opinion it's going to continue. right now historically speaking we're just about to enter the peak time. 80% of our cases occur in august and september so we're still at the beginning of what's probably going to be a much larger effect. when we look at this here we are in the middl
they do break down quickly in the environment. they usually try to do the spraying at nighttime pretty late, at least here in houston they do so it reduces the amount of exposure that would be to pets or people. with the spraying it's important to disperse it, it's important to get out at a time when the mosquito is most active. that east the most responsible for the transmission of west nile virus and it's most active between dusk and dawnened and so that ice when you want to do what you can...
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but other issues like education, the environment, national defense, those are-- issues, one side is more believable or more identified with that issue. if this campaign were about national missile system, a new missile system for america, for defense i don't care how strongly the democrats emphasized it, republicans come with a credibility and believability. on medicare, when you ask who is for preserving prorx tecting medicare who has been the champion of it, voters and especially over 65 in states like ohio, pennsylvania, florida and iowa which now are in play i think more, you know, identify with the democrats as being the champion. >> so he's saying democrats can get away with playing around with it more than help cans. >> that's definitely true. republicans have a credibility gap. if they can just fight this to a draw it will be a huge advantage for them. and not to go even further in the weeds and mark already took us, but-- the ryan budget did accept those cuts, mostly because once they are in the baseline and writing a budget it's hard to get them out. he did not take those cuts
but other issues like education, the environment, national defense, those are-- issues, one side is more believable or more identified with that issue. if this campaign were about national missile system, a new missile system for america, for defense i don't care how strongly the democrats emphasized it, republicans come with a credibility and believability. on medicare, when you ask who is for preserving prorx tecting medicare who has been the champion of it, voters and especially over 65 in...
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if that was back on the table could you imagine that breaking through the current political environment. >> i think basically now, gwen, there are three sticking points. one is the amount of revenue and the sources of revenue. the second is the amount of spending cuts and how much of that will come from the entitlement programs particularly health. the last sticking point is what do we do aut this debt lit that we've come up against all the time that puts our credit in danger. >> ifill: the president has said the debt limit should be, at least in his opening statement, that the debt limit debate should be set aside and that nothing can be done unless the taxes are cut... are raised for the wealthy. is that part of a solution that you can see working for what it is everybody is trying to get to here? >> look, gwen, i'm not a bit worried that it appears on the surface that secretary geithner ton the speaker didn ke any progress last week. that's just a theater you go through. geithner made his first offer. the republicans rejected it. no surprise. i'm sure that this offer that the speaker
if that was back on the table could you imagine that breaking through the current political environment. >> i think basically now, gwen, there are three sticking points. one is the amount of revenue and the sources of revenue. the second is the amount of spending cuts and how much of that will come from the entitlement programs particularly health. the last sticking point is what do we do aut this debt lit that we've come up against all the time that puts our credit in danger. >>...
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and so we will sample through the layers of time and see how the environment, the environment, the atmosphere, the water conditions, just overall chemical conditions were possible for life. >> but first they have to arrive-- arrive alive and that is no small task. curious sit too big and heavy to bounce on to the surface as spirit and opportunity did. the air bag material is just not strong enough. >> so the wizards here devised and tested an audacious entry, descent and landing scheme that is part transformer, part ruth goldberg. >> how many things have to go right? >> a tremendous number. we have 79 different pyro devices that have to go correctly. that all have to function. >> all 79 have to fire. >> all 79 have to fire. if one of them doesn't, game over. >> if all goes as planned, the kraft will ent-- the craft will enter the at position fear at more than 14,000 miles an hour. thrusters will fire to slow it down and guide it towards the bull's-eye. a supersonic para chuted deploirxed heat shield serates and drops away. a landing radar will measure altitude and speed. the back shell separa
and so we will sample through the layers of time and see how the environment, the environment, the atmosphere, the water conditions, just overall chemical conditions were possible for life. >> but first they have to arrive-- arrive alive and that is no small task. curious sit too big and heavy to bounce on to the surface as spirit and opportunity did. the air bag material is just not strong enough. >> so the wizards here devised and tested an audacious entry, descent and landing...
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atmosphere of scarcity and austerity that the country in in the long-term debt concerns is an ideal environment for the conservatives and a rough one for liberals. liberals do not see the world... they see much more of the world as a unity, as one and that everyone shares. they don't like to inflict harm on anybody particularly. so they're not really prepared for this kind of fight over limited... not this limited but diminishing resources. >> woodruff: what do you see as the... as at stake here. off pretty pessimistic outlook here at the end about where the country's headed. you talk about a period of decline potentially for the united states? >> well, i think whole conflict and the polarization we're in right now has limited the ability of this country to deal with what are very serious problems. and i think the view a number of economists hold, which is that at the moment this country really ought to be taking advantage of the fact that money is virtually free. you can borrow money at almost zero cost and there ought to be more investment right now but you have to combine that with a long-te
atmosphere of scarcity and austerity that the country in in the long-term debt concerns is an ideal environment for the conservatives and a rough one for liberals. liberals do not see the world... they see much more of the world as a unity, as one and that everyone shares. they don't like to inflict harm on anybody particularly. so they're not really prepared for this kind of fight over limited... not this limited but diminishing resources. >> woodruff: what do you see as the... as at...
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you're beginning to see something of a combination of strategy and looking at an increasingly toxic environment that i think will make that draw down faster and more robust on the wrong end. i could be wrong. it's tied to what the taliban want and what these negotiations come out. there's a set of negotiations in which we don't see happening in which both sides are trying to position in how they deal with each other. to some degree i think panetta's comments were part signaling to the taliban not a concession but what is possible. i suspect that the pressure to bring our troops home more quickly will increase. >> ifill: what do you think about that? >> i think what's unclear right now-- and the administration has been very careful on what it said-- it's unclear what happens in 2013, 2014 and beyond. will that mean zero u.s. forces? i've never heard anybody privately say that means zero. the talk now is 15 or 20 or 25, somewhere in that category. i think that the subject of discussion now is will this be mostly a move away from a conventional counterinsurgency model to more special operations an
you're beginning to see something of a combination of strategy and looking at an increasingly toxic environment that i think will make that draw down faster and more robust on the wrong end. i could be wrong. it's tied to what the taliban want and what these negotiations come out. there's a set of negotiations in which we don't see happening in which both sides are trying to position in how they deal with each other. to some degree i think panetta's comments were part signaling to the taliban...
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, this very polarized political environment, particularly on capitol hill as we've seen again and again it's hard to get things passed. >> ifill: just tracking republican reaction to the president's move, the president spoke on friday, we just saw a little bit of mitt romney kind of not quite answering the question on sunday and now today mitch mcconnell saying in your court nominee romney why are republicans having such a difficult time deciding... did they just get trumped on this? >> part of the white house's political plan with this announcement and doing it that the time-- which it seems like they succeeded at-- is to put republicans in a political vice. trapping them between their base which, as i said, doesn't like the plan, polling shows they don't like it, and between hispanics who are really, really important swing vote who are going to be an important swing vote in this election so it's hard for them, for romney and other republican leaders, they have to calibrate their response. they don't want to upset their base, they need to come out in force to win this election but they
, this very polarized political environment, particularly on capitol hill as we've seen again and again it's hard to get things passed. >> ifill: just tracking republican reaction to the president's move, the president spoke on friday, we just saw a little bit of mitt romney kind of not quite answering the question on sunday and now today mitch mcconnell saying in your court nominee romney why are republicans having such a difficult time deciding... did they just get trumped on this?...
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so people shouldn't anticipate that we're going to start protesting more as we protest the environment or anything like that. we're going to stick pretty much to our basic work. >> sreenivasan: so what about in the basic work when the conversation or topic is controversial by nature. i see references that say "citation needed" but there's people that are questioning how can i trust this information if it is crowd sourced? >> well, i think that's an absolutely valid question but it's one we should ask much more broadly. how can we trust any information? how can we trust various sources and we need to have much more education in the public about when can you rely oning? when can you not? the great thing about our operation is that everything is open to discussion, dialogue, debate. one of the great things you can do if you're not sure about something is go to the discussion page and see how people are debating about it. see what people have to say. and follow the sources and see if we're accurately reflecting the sources and if not tell us. that's one of our core values is to accurately
so people shouldn't anticipate that we're going to start protesting more as we protest the environment or anything like that. we're going to stick pretty much to our basic work. >> sreenivasan: so what about in the basic work when the conversation or topic is controversial by nature. i see references that say "citation needed" but there's people that are questioning how can i trust this information if it is crowd sourced? >> well, i think that's an absolutely valid...